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General Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: drifter on August 06, 2010, 07:03:52 AM
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I'm a new member and this will be my first post, so bear with me. I just wanted to tell a few things about some of the callmakers from Eminence. I grew up in Eminence and went to a one room school my first five grades. Swiney Rayfield was my teacher three of those and Jim Chilton one year.
I went to work on a carpenter crew in 1974 for the National Park Service with Cecil Fry and Walt Winterbottom.
Me and Cecil fished together and hunted elk in Colorado that fall. I helped him build a wooden john boat or two. I watched him build turkey calls but didn't really help.
The first turkey that I called up and killed I was hunting with Walt. Cecil was there too but went by himself. I was pretty proud of myself. Walt was all smiles too. He wanted to make me a call and like a dumb kid, I said, " I don't need one Walt, this old lynch does a pretty good job." We were hunting over on little Blair creek at Walts cabin.
Cecil used that old original fencepost call, I called with it several times myself. It was almost 16" long, I used to say that we could use it to lay out with if we forgot our tapes. Walt would bring callers to work with him and tune them at lunch hour. He made a lot better lookin call than Cecil.
I missed a golden oppurtunity to learn from those guys. I worked and hunted and fished with Cecil for several years, Walt was older and only worked a year or two and retired. I would like to say they were great men to know and I learned a lot about carpenter work from them.
Doug
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Glad to have you Doug! That is a great story. Treasured Memories.
Mike
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WOW!!!! that is really a great post!!!! Welcome aboard!!!! *cheers*
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Doug thanks for sharing. I wish I'd made a trip to Eminence many many years ago... I really enjoy heading down there now. Hopefully we can meet up and put a face to our names too!
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Great story ..I always enjoy hearing about history of call making and of the people who had such a prominent part in that history. Looking forward to more stories...thanks for sharing your adventures
Charlie
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great story and welcome abord !!!
I -like the other guys look forward to more stories about the great ones !!
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Welcome and thanks for sharing the great story! *cheers*
Al
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Welcome and thanks for sharing the great story! *cheers*
Al
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welcome drifter. thanks for sharing
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*welcome* Drifter. Thank you for sharing a great story about some legendary Mo. callmakers. Keep posting.... MIZ ZOU GO TIGERS *bannana*
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That really is a great story. Thanks for posting it. Roc *up* *up*
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welcome drifter. thanks for sharing
*welcome* *welcome*
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*welcome* Great story.